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Norwegian Life History Study, 1971 (ICPSR 8545)

Principal Investigator(s):Ramsoy, Natalie Rogoff; Skrede, Kari

Summary:

This data collection represents interviews with birth
cohorts of Norwegian males born in 1921, 1931, and 1941 who were 50,
40, and 30 years of age at the time the interviews were conducted
(November 1971 - March 1972). The objective of the study was to
investigate historical life changes in the life cycle experiences of
Norwegian men. The respondents were asked about the families into which
they were born, their childhoods, and their lives from the age of
fourteen until the time of the interview... (more info)

This data collection represents interviews with birth
cohorts of Norwegian males born in 1921, 1931, and 1941 who were 50,
40, and 30 years of age at the time the interviews were conducted
(November 1971 - March 1972). The objective of the study was to
investigate historical life changes in the life cycle experiences of
Norwegian men. The respondents were asked about the families into which
they were born, their childhoods, and their lives from the age of
fourteen until the time of the interview. The major areas covered in
the interviews include: place of residence, education, work history,
income, household status and composition, marital status and family
composition, illness and injuries, and receipt of benefits.

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Study Description

Citation

Ramsoy, Natalie Rogoff, and Kari Skrede. Norwegian Life History Study, 1971. ICPSR08545-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1987. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08545.v1

Universe:
The population of men residing in Norway born in either
1921, 1931, or 1941 who were listed in the central population register
of the Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics as of December 31, 1970.

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The age distribution for the 3470 interviewed men was:
age 30 (N=1054), age 40 (N=1094), age 50 (N=1322). The English language
edition of the codebook was produced by Aage Sorensen, Annemette
Sorensen, and David L. Featherman, University of Wisconsin, Department
of Sociology, who extensively reorganized the data into machine-
readable rectangular event-based analysis files. The data and
documentation have also been aaugmented by additional information they
acquired during the course of their research. Sorensen et al. obtained
the original data set from the Norwegian Social Science Data Services,
University of Bergen. Seven data files from the original data set have
been omitted.

Funding for the English language edition was provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Aging.

Methodology

Sample:
Sampling was done through the central population register
under the direction of the Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics. A
two-stage sampling procedure was employed. The universe of men in the
three age cohorts living in the 300 primary sampling units served as
the basis for the second sampling stage.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1987-02-26

Version History:

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 15 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 15 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.